Davis > Davis's Quotes

“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.”
― B. W. Powe, Towards a Canada of Light

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie

“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
― James Michener

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”
― Noam Chomsky

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson